Carlos Sainz: “I could shoot dead”

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The man from Madrid came third in a Brazilian GP in which all went well, despite not being able to beat the Mercedes

Carlos Sainz finished the Brazilian GP in third, which in perspective tastes like much more. Mercedes was the only team capable of winning and he was aware of that, so he drove a more than decent race.

And that he had a problem with a plastic sheet of the visors that almost caused a fire in the brakes. “We had some problems with the brakes at the start, which caught fire. We had to stop early, and then we had to choose three stops; this was not optimal due to degradation. Overall I think it was a good race,” he summarized.

“Still, I managed to shoot myself trying to reach Checo. We were able to attack him, a good podium after starting seventh. We can be happy, it is a pity that the Mercedes were so fast. Congratulations to George’, he congratulated the champion of the day. There is one nice prize left and it will be a last chance, but Sainz knows it is difficult. “They were faster than any other car, than Red Bull and than us. They’ve been like this for a few weekends now, so in Abu Dhabi we can expect them to win. We will have to do damage control or go for the win ourselves,” he promised.

Fernando Alonso led the day’s comeback, which would have been better had he not had a bad pit stop. The Spaniard regained twelve positions and was very happy, not only for the result, but also because this time he did not have a fight with his team-mate.

“Today we didn’t collide, we kept our distance from others. In that sense, I’m happy because we’ve had a run on the attack. After Norris stopped and we knew we weren’t losing any points, we went flat out, we were aggressive. In the end, I remembered Brazil well,” the Spaniard summarized.

It was a good weekend for Alpine and especially for him, who had to complete almost 70 qualifying laps with a three-stop strategy. “This morning we had the optimistic forecast of finishing seventh after three stops, but several safety cars have come out and we are hesitant to make two stops. There has been a lot of action at the end,” he stressed, especially for the team’s 21 points over McLaren.

Source: La Verdad

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